4 tweets · June 2019 · 59 likes · 4 retweets · read on Twitter
Have you ever had an experience of suddenly grokking what an oft-quoted phrase, proverb, or cliché was saying? Did it come from looking at the phrase, or did you have a deep insight, go to express it, and realize you were saying words you'd heard before?
Also very curious to hear *which* phrases these were, and any context you have for what caused you to have the insight or how you might try to convey it to others. I've just written one of my own:
I think I've more often had the latter experience (insight→phrase) but this experience today was an interesting example of the former (phrase→insight)
> "It's damn annoying when you feel like you've finally unlocked the wisdom behind what used to sound like old platitudes, & feel like this gives you superpowers, but you also feel that you can't communicate the insight to anyone b/c they'd just hear the old platitudes." -@xuenay